How to Create Text Crack Effect

To start creating a text crack effect, you first need to download and install Filmora on your system. You can freely download Filmora from its official website.

When Filmora is opened, go to the Sample Color option and select the green color from it. Drop the green color on the timeline and click on Titles to select and drop the Default Title on the timeline. Change the font style to any bold font and font size to 96. After adding your text, make it Italic and click on Advanced. Here adjust the position of the Title, add another text underneath it, and press OK.

Select the black color from Sample Color and drop it on the timeline. Click on Video to rotate the black to 120° and move it to the left side of the Title. Add another black color, rotate it to 120°, and move it to cover the Title except for a small part. These black colors will be used as masks and green as trackers. Now hide the green color and take a snapshot. Unhide the green part and move the black colors to reveal another part of the green Title. Hide the green color again and take a snapshot. Do this until you have taken snapshots of the whole Title. This step is needed for creating split parts of the Title. You can use black color rotation to create uneven slice effects.

Delete all these clips from the timeline and drop the last two snapshots on the timeline and change the blending mode to Screen. Similarly, add all the remaining snapshots to the timeline. When done, make all the snapshots 7 seconds long. We'll start with track one, add a blank keyframe at 2 seconds, and go five frames further. Here, change the scale to 95% and Y-axis to -66. We change the rotation to -5° and Y-axis to -177 at 4 seconds and 24^th frames. Move to 5 frames further and add a blank keyframe. After moving five frames more, reset the scale, rotation, and position.

Add a blank keyframe at 2 seconds when working on track two and move five frames further. There, change the scale to 105% and move to 4 seconds and 24^th frames. Here, change the Y-axis to -31 and rotation to 5°. Move 5 frames further and add a blank keyframe. After the next 5 frames, reset the scale, rotation, and position. Do the same with the remaining Snapshots and get all cracked text clips.

Once you create cracked text clips, add one track gap with each snapshot track. Now select and drop Vignette.png from Shared Media and drop it on track two, a gap track, at a 2-second position. Open the video tab, change the scale to 65%, and adjust the position to create a shadow effect. Move to 5 frames ahead and rotate and place it on the last snapshot to create a shadow. On the starting point of Vignette.png, reduce its opacity to 0%. Select the Dissolve Transition from Transitions and add it to starting and ending positions of the Vignette clip. Copy the Vignette clip, paste it into each gap track, and align its position to respective snapshots.

To make your crack text effect even better, add the Vignette clip on all the clips and align it to a position respective to your text. Now render your video, and then you can preview the crack text effect on your chosen text.